Fortnite Update 1.33

Fortnite Update 1.11

HIGHLIGHTS

• Season 2 of Battle Royale begins Dec. 14!
• Season store is replaced with the Season 2 Battle Pass.
• Get in the Holday Spirit!
• The update includes the limited-time Snowball Grenade Launcher, a festive Battle Bus, and other gifts waiting for you around the island.
• Express Yourself!
• Emotes and emoticons can be earned as rewards via the Battle Pass or can be purchased in the Shop.
• Equip up to 6 and trigger them in game with B (keyboard) or Down on the D-Pad (controller).

GAMEPLAY

• Compete in solos or with friends to complete the two new Daily Quests.
• Top 50 Solo
• Top 12 Squad
• Updated a few Daily Quests:
• “Search Chests” changed from 5 to 7
• “Search Ammo Boxes” changed from 10 to 7
• “Pistol Eliminations” changed from 3 to 2
• Anyone already on these quests with have their progress reset.
• Added support for 21:9 displays and any other ultrawide resolutions.
• Added animations for sliding down cliff sides.
• Added animations to turn head to reticle while sprinting diagonally.
• The “Combat Pro” controller configuration will now be the default configuration for new players.
• No change has been made to existing users.
• Soccer and Basketballs now have smoother movement. How long can you keep the ball in play?

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue that caused actual damage dealt to not match up with damage numbers on screen.
• Floating damage numbers would sometimes be one digit higher than the actual damage dealt due to rounding issues.
• Chests no longer appear unopened at a distance when they have already been looted.
• Fixed an issue that prevented players from picking up items that overlapped looted chests and ammo crates.
• Build mode blueprints are now hidden after using a Launch Pad and while DBNO.
• Fixed an issue that prevented players from taking fall damage if they had 1HP remaining.
• Fixed a broken animation that occurred while switching between certain equipped items.
• Fixed the Renegade Raider outfit’s head so it doesn’t clip through the helmet anymore.
• Character models now animate properly when rotating in place.
• Fixed an issue that allowed players to “search” items like bushes and furniture, causing them to wiggle and play an audio cue.
• These types of items are now only searchable in the Save the World co-op mode.
• Reduced aim assist prioritizing DBNO players.

WEAPONS

• When throwing grenades, a short trajectory will now be visible that previews the arc the grenade will follow.
• Renamed some weapons for consistency.
• “Assault Rifle (Scope)” is now “Assault Rifle with Scope”.
• “Assault Rifle (Burst)” is now “Burst Assault Rifle”.
• “Submachine Gun (Suppressor)” is now “Suppressed Submachine Gun”.
• Legendary assault rifle drop rate decreased by 25% in floor loot and chests. Drop rate from Supply Drops will be unchanged.
• Reduced pump shotgun shot queueing time.
• Reduced from 0.4 to 0.2 seconds. (It is now the same as all other weapons.)
• This will reduce the chance that players will misfire the weapon.
• Updated the icon for the standard grenade.

Bug Fixes

• Removed controller aim assist slow while scoped.
• This will make it easier to use sniper rifles with a controller.
• Pump Shotgun now correctly queues shots the same as all other weapons, reducing chances of an accidental extra shot being fired.
• Sniper rifle projectiles no longer pass through other players under non-ideal network conditions.
• Hit impacts from a sniper rifle play on the correct location of the enemy player now.
• Fixed an issue that allowed bullets to pass through player built pyramid structures.
• Fixed issue causing smoke beams to not play when weapons were fired.

UI

• Improved the game mode selection flow and UI.
• This should make it much easier to select a game mode with a controller.
• When opening your inventory, the mouse cursor will now always appear in the center of the screen on PC and Mac.
• The Code of Conduct is now displayed directly in the game UI, rather than opening an external page.
• The Inspect button for Battle Royale Daily Challenges has been moved to the bottom bar.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue causing the “Push to Talk” binding from being removed when selecting the “Reset to Default” button in the Save the World settings.
• Using the “Report Player” option in Duo or Squad will now auto-fill with the name of the player that eliminated you instead of your teammates name.
• Fixed some missing localized text in various languages.
• Fixed an issue that prevented the “Daily Challenges” scroll bar from working with a controller.
• Improved visibility of the number of players remaining on each team in 50v50 mode.
• Fixed an issue that caused some options in the settings menu to disappear when the player was eliminated while the setting menu was open.
• Fixed an issue that caused player’s health and shield bars to appear empty on the victory screen.

AUDIO

• Improved the audio cue that plays when hitting the generators found in the world.
• Previously, it was playing similar audio to the ceiling/wall traps.

Bug Fixes

• Clap audio is now adjusted by the SFX slider in the audio settings.
• Fixed an issue that caused players to hear bullet whiz-by audio that was not heard by the person they were spectating.
• Dance emote music no longer continues to play for others when the dance is cancelled.

PERFORMANCE

• Various optimizations to interactive objects such as doors to improve overall frame rate.
• Minor frame rate improvements by optimizing weapons.
• Eliminated many hitches which could happen the first time you encountered a player’s skin or weapon in a match.
• Fixed an issue with particles that caused hitching as the time of day changes.
• Improved server performance by optimizing how physics is updated.
• Fixed performance issues with ladybug ambient particles in the world.
• Fixed an issue with the storm safe zones that could cause poor server performance.
• Greatly reduced CPU usage of in-game party and chat systems.
• Fixed an issue with the memory allocator on XB1 and PC which caused degraded CPU performance
• Improved CPU rendering performance on Xbox One and PS4
• Xbox One X scalability tweaks to improve CPU performance under heavy load

MATCH STATS

• “View Match Results” is now bound to V by default.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue causing the total XP earned on the Match Stats screen to be inaccurate.
• Traps now add to the “assists” and “damage dealt” stats.
• Fixed an issue that incorrectly gave an assist credit to a player for simply hitting another player with a pickaxe before being eliminated.
• “Total Headshots” is now equal to the number of headshots achieved instead of the amount of headshot damage that the player dealt.
• Fixed an issue that caused the “Damage Taken” stat to be less than 100 after being eliminated.
• Shots fired during the warm-up zone no longer affect the player’s “Accuracy” stat.
• Fixed an issue that incorrectly awarded the “First Kill” XP bonus to every player that got an elimination during the match.
• Projectile weapons will now add to the “Accuracy”, “Hits”, and “Critical Hits” stats.

SOCIAL

• Added the ability to invite players to your party through Discord on PC.
• Added full voice chat support to Mac.
• Enabled Twitch login support for Battle Royale.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue preventing players from connecting to the “Friends Only” leaderboards.
• Fixed a crash related to the voice chat feature.